The Bible and Poetry
$39.98
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2023
Summary
A fresh, provocative look at the link between poetry and Christianity, both as it relates to the Bible itself as well as to Christian and religious life, by an accomplished scholar.
The Bible is full of poems. In the Old Testament, there are the Psalms and the Song of Songs, the great exhortations and lamentations of the Prophets, and passages of poetry woven in throughout. In the New Testament, Jesus describes the kingdom of heaven with poetic epithets such as “a treasure hid in a fi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781681376370 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1681376377 |
| Author: | Michael Edwards, Stephen E. Lewis |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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“The conviction that drives this quite personal and quite passionate book … is that the Bible must be received as it presents itself—as a text thrumming through and through with the vibrations of poetry, which alone has the power to signal the invisible that secretly sustains the world.” —Anne-Marie Pelletier, Études
About The Author
Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards is an Anglo-French poet and scholar. Born in Barnes, London, he is the author of twenty books and the first English person ever to have been elected to the Coll ge de France and to the Academie Francaise.
Stephen E. Lewis is a professor of English at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, and a translator of French literature.
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